What is the right way to create a new custom link in the header using smarty function?

ui_designer

I m building a new theme and i created the file default.master.tpl Now i want to add a new link in the head panel of my site. I tried to add this
<a href ="./folder/test">LINK</a> but when you are redirected to the link page and click again this link the url becomes
mysite/folder/folder/test and if i click it again it turns to mysite/folder/folder/folder/test etc

Is there any smarty function/way that i can get the site url ??? For example...

 <a href ="{home_url}/folder/test">LINK</a>

Shadowdare

If your forum at the root of your URL, then you can leave out the period to get an absolute path: <a href="/folder/test">LINK</a>

Anyway, you can use the link function like this: <a href="{link path="/"}/folder/test">LINK</a>

Edit: haven't tested this now, but you might be able to use {link path="/folder/test"} as the link. You'll have to try it out.

R_J

The custom link Smarty function can do more than that: <div class="Button">{link text='GO!' path='/plugin/action' class='Button'}</div>